I have been writing these fave tracks for awhile now. It is one way to track how music, certain songs, enters and leaves our field of interest. How over a period of a week or so, songs from an album will flood our pleasure zones and then slowly fade out and success or failure of the song, at least as far as I am concerned is based upon the longevity of that song.
The last weeks have seen it go from Gucci mane to Hol;d Steady to Sleigh Bell to Holy Ghosts! to, where it holds for one more day till the new releases this morning flushes it away, LCD Soundsystem.
What happened with Sleigh Bells was that however good the album as a whole was, they lead with their best: “Tell ‘Em”. What happened with LCD was just as I was getting over “Drunk Girls” I got into “I Can Change”.With Hold Steady? Albums of hits that I had missed flooded in and was followed by what feels like today a somewhat disappointing album.
The music blogger (any blogger?), as opposed to the rock journalist, is closing monitoring these fluctuations of song appeal, trying, not through one definitive review but through a constant series of tiny jjabs at the songs, to figure out what they like and maybe (sometimes) why and to share it.
So here’s today’s faves -not unlike yesterdays but very different from last or next weeks.
1. I Can Change – LCD Soundsystem
2. Tell Em – Sleigh bells
3. Next Girl – The Black Keys
4. Running On Empty – Jackson Browne and David Lindley
5. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House – LCD Soundsystem
6. I Like It (feat. Pitbull) – Enrique Iglesias
7. Guilty (feat T.I.) _ Usher
8. Foundations – Kate Nash
9. I’ll Never Find Another You – The Seekers
10. Goodbyee – Oh! What A Lovely War Soundtrack